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Structural Package Designs + CD ROM (Agile Rabbit Editions) (Multilingual Edition)

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I would recommend this book to everyone who enjoys crafts and modeling, or just to everybody who is curios about the making of things, because this book contains ready-to-use printable and editable (look for the cd-rom) patterns for the most used types of packaging on the market.
Be aware that this book is just a collection, a dummy, with no explanations.
But unfortunately, all the examples I have printed directly from the source files were somehow misfit and ended to be weird useless objects (stuff for 'The Design of Everyday Things' by Donald A. Norman, if you like).
I am not sure if this problem is in my copy of the book (an 'errata corrige'?), I hope that you'll be more lucky than me.

To all design students I would recommend this book, instead: 'The Packaging Designer's Book of Patterns' by Lazlo Roth, George L. Wybenga

It is not much to say..just buy it!! I am graphic Design student and I deal constantly with designing packages for books and graphic material...This book had helped me a lot. It has made my life so much easier. It comes with the CD so you can download the template, the format let you open the file in Illustrator or Photoshop so you can easily re-sizes it to fit your project.

This book does not have information on the principles of package design. It's main purpose is to provide diagrams of 100's of packages. It is good reference material for those wanting to see how to lay out a package template and includes a CD of the templates. It is a valuable tool for those that do a lot of package design.

For professional or house use, a great book, nice ideas, nice detail, the CD is the best complement. great!

If you're a visual learner like I am, this book will be helpful in giving you an overview of packaging design but without any words. This book is all about packaging examples, you can either reproduce, modify, or simply find inspiration from. If you are interested in understanding the why, you will need a different book, but for the how, this in my mind was very helpful, especially when it came to drafting in 2D.

It is very useful, it have a CD with different files of model of package. You can use it how example and you can understand the structure of each one.

his book is good for an idea starter for novice. If you are serious about this and want actual production you should contact the professionals. I like the idea of the CD with the structures shown in the book.

I like the original red structural package designs by Haresh Pathak.